Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 093
Flying corpses, drug-fuelled orgies and things that go squish in the night: there is a distinctive buzz about this week's Funtabulously Frivolous Flyday.
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Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 096
“Believe me, my young friend, there is NOTHING - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." Fair enough, we all love messing about in boats. But - smearing honey on orifices? Experimenting on nuns? Squeezing fish?
Bruno Fleischer
Bruno Otto Fleischer (1874 – 1965) was a German ophthalmologist.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 092
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 092 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, some medical trivia FFFF.
Marcus Gunn Pupil
A pupil that responds by constricting more to an indirect than to a direct light, seen with unilateral optic nerve or retinal disease
Robert Marcus Gunn
Robert Marcus Gunn (1850-1909) was a Scottish Ophthalmologist. Marcus Gunn pupillary phenomenon (1902), aka relative afferent pupillary defect or RAPD
Johann Horner
Johann Friedrich Horner (1831-1886) was a Swiss ophthalmologist. Horner syndrome, was so named following his 1869 description
Medical education challenge
Medical education both undergraduate and postgraduate mostly takes place in small group settings with less than 20 learners
Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821 – 1894) was a German physician and physicist. Helmholtz was a pioneer in the scientific study of human vision and hearing. He revolutionized the field of ophthalmology with the invention of the ophthalmoscope in…
Adie syndrome
Holmes-Adie syndrome (aka Adie syndrome) affects the autonomic nervous system. Patients present with the pupil of one eye being larger and only slowly constricts in bright light (tonic pupil). There is also absence of deep tendon reflexes, usually the Achilles tendon.
Gordon Holmes
Sir Gordon Morgan Holmes (1876-1965) was an Irish neurologist. Eponymously remembered for Bálint-Holmes syndrome (1918); Stewart-Holmes manoeuvre; Gordon-Holmes syndrome and Holmes-Adie syndrome (1931)
Kinnier Wilson
Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson (1878 – 1937) was an American-born British neurologist. Following his extensive work on hepatolenticular degeneration this condition is eponymously termed Wilson disease